What is the point of the pepper. This is a serious question. Is it to go quickly through the presentation? to just keep the presenter from being boring? or something else?

I loved the idea of Hot Pepper Gaming (the YouTube channel that inspired the talk), and I think it’s funny, so I wanted to try it myself. I had a ton of fun doing it.

One of our developers here at Raizlabs followed hot pepper gaming's example while providing tips for using Xcode

Fantastic. Evil. I love how this idea forces the speaker to be brief with the milk within reach.